Claude

Overview

Claude is Anthropic's conversational AI app, available on Web, iOS, Android, and desktop. It is favored by developers and knowledge workers for its strengths in coding, long-context reasoning, and safety. The flagship is Claude Opus 5 (released July 24, 2026), which is the default model on Claude Max. The 1M token context window is available at standard pricing.

Latest / Key Features

Claude Opus 5 / Sonnet 5

Pro and higher plans run on Opus 5 and Sonnet 5. Opus 5 pairs a 1M-token context window with an xhigh reasoning-effort mode and is priced at $5 in / $25 out per million tokens. Sonnet 5 runs $2 in / $10 out — a level Anthropic originally framed as introductory pricing through August 31, 2026, then made permanent in August 2026.

Cowork (Agentic Feature)

Launched for Max on January 12, 2026, and extended to Pro four days later. Cowork lets Claude autonomously complete multi-step tasks such as organizing research files, analyzing data across multiple documents, and coordinating project workflows. In August 2026 it expanded to web, iOS, and Android — sessions run in the cloud, so work continues after the device goes offline.

Pay-as-You-Go Overages

Pro, Max 5x, and Max 20x all support continuing past plan limits at API-standard pricing, with user-set monthly caps.

Artifacts / Projects

Artifacts renders code, docs, and mini apps in a live preview during chat. Projects persists long-running context and files. Both are available on Pro and above. Artifacts can now call your MCP connectors to pull live data, so a shared URL re-renders with fresh values every time it is opened.

Voice mode on the top-tier models

Since July 24, 2026, Claude's voice mode runs on Anthropic's most capable models across iOS, Android, Web, and Desktop instead of a lightweight tier, bringing audio conversation quality up to the same level as text on every platform.

Claude Code Integration

Max plans ($100 / $200) include full access to Claude Code, the terminal-based autonomous coding agent that understands entire repositories, edits across files, and runs commands on its own.

Plans & Pricing

Pro is $20/month (about $17/month billed annually) and Max comes in $100 and $200 tiers, with Opus 5 as the default model on Max.

Plan	Monthly	Highlights
Free	$0	Sonnet 5 with limits
Pro	$20	Opus 5, Projects, Artifacts, Cowork, overages
Max (5x)	$100	5x Pro usage, Opus 5 by default, full Claude Code
Max (20x)	$200	20x Pro usage, priority access
Team	From $25/user	Team features, admin console
Enterprise	Contact sales	SSO, audit logs, extended context, SLA

Common Use Cases

• Software development: Claude Code, Artifacts, repository-level review
• Long-document work: Contracts, papers, books (1M tokens)
• Writing: Blogs, technical docs, marketing
• Data analysis: Cross-document analysis automated via Cowork
• Research: Deep reasoning, nuanced critique, summarization

Strengths

• ✅ Industry-leading coding ability — tops SWE-bench leaderboards
• ✅ 1M token context at standard pricing
• ✅ Cowork agent — now on web and mobile as well as desktop
• ✅ Safety-first — Constitutional AI approach
• ✅ Flexible overages — pay-as-you-go beyond plan limits
• ✅ Claude Code included on Max plans

Weaknesses

• ❌ No image or video generation (input only)
• ❌ No app store equivalent to Custom GPTs
• ❌ Tight Free plan limits
• ❌ Fewer third-party plugins than ChatGPT
• ❌ Monthly quotas on the top models get revised on a short cadence, so heavy users need to budget for API metered pricing on top of the subscription

Official Links

• Website: https://claude.ai
• Pricing: https://claude.com/pricing
• Help Center: https://support.claude.com